Pumps' Perplexities

Once upon a time margarine was not yellow.....It was white...

Margarine was a necessary and needed by-product of WWII...
Butter was rationed during the war, so another "spread"
was needed....But when the first margarine was made the
dairy industry was "up in arms" over the fact that the new
products was going to look like "their" butter....Butter was
butter - margarine could not be butter.....

So the first margarine was white and was packaged in a plastic
bag, similar to today's Glad and Ziplock...Inside the bag was
a white "glob" which looked like lard and a capsule, similar to
today's M&M...What you had to do is break the capsule, inside
the bag with your fingers....This released a yellow dye which
changed the white glob to a yellow glob....

Now you had yellow margarine, which looked like butter...Pumps